The Orgasm In Art

It‘s older than Pornhub

19th-century copy of Antonio Correggio’s Jupiter and Io (1552). Public domain

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Before humankind turned to science to explain the wonders of the universe, it relied on mythology and its consort, religion, to make sense of what were mostly natural phenomena. The primary, universal phenomenon was the inevitable death and decay of the physical body. The…